Yesterday we held our PHP BBQ event at Munich, well it was no BBQ
as the weather forecasts predicted rain,which came in the
evening, but a nice evening in a beer garden.

We had more than 30 people there, some leaving early, sme
arriving late, covering quite different kinds of participants:
PHP core developers, professional PHP users, people doing PHP
stuff as hobby, friends and PHP community veterans like Till
Gerken. Many people didn't know each other or didn't see each
other or some time so we had lot's of discussions, and most of
them even weren't about PHP and even many non-IT things were
covered, which I find always great. If you want an impression
check …

As others wrote, or as you can read on php.net or in my
twitter feed we've released the second, long awaited, release
candidate of PHP 5.3.0.

5.3 is rather big release including support for namespaces,
closures, phar archives, internatioalization support via the new
intl extension, improved SQLite support, mysqlnd as backend for
the MySQL exensions, impressive performance improvements, …

NetBeans 6.5
is soon to be released. After 10 years of
NetBeans that's the first version of Sun's OpenSource IDE
featuring PHP
support. While 6.5 is waiting to be packaged the development
didn't stop and the first features for the successor,
NetBeans.next, are already being developed. David Van Couvering just showed a preview of a
cool new feature: SQL completion in PHP strings, if it does …

Ever wondered what your PHP application and MySQL actually do? An
experimental mysqlnd branch will give you full
access to the network communication stream. Using a custom PHP
stream filter you can then intercept the communication ... but
let's start at the beginning:

When talking about mysqlnd - the mysql native driver for PHP - we
always mention the fact it's native in a way that we're, when
possible, using PHP infrastructure. The most common example here
is the memory management. …

End October - time for the traditional meeting of the German and
International "PHP family" - end of October? - Yes, the
International PHP Conference is a bit earlier this year.
Additonally the organizers moved the conference away from the
industrial area of Mörfelden to the center of Mainz which sounds quite promising. Although I'll
spend only around 24hrs at Mainz I'm looking really forward to
the conference next week.

On Thursday morning I'll give a presentation about PHP 5.3, which
will be quite …

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